Seriously, Don't Spoil Sports, Ya Spoilsports
 

We won the war?

Scars
 

Ahh geez, oxen in hoop skirts with parasols. People selling $5 sunglasses and cell phone cases clogging up the goddamn sidewalks. The unemployed clogging the sidewalks asking for money ...sigh, I'll never get to work now.
:mad:

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The link is about the concert that was reviewed by Jack and Str8 about a month back. It was going to happen in Calverton, LI (east end) this weekend, but a bunch of NIMBYs and environmentalists got their way, so now about half of the acts, including Beastie Boys and Radiohead, have agreed to play Giants Stadium this weekend instead. Tix should be available, b/c the Field Day tix were automatically refunded.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/lo...-top-headlines

Seriously, Don't Spoil Sports, Ya Spoilsports
 

You are absolutely right. War and sports are totally analagous. Hell, why have spoiler space at all? If Slave isn't interested in it, why should anyone else care if there beloved entertainment is ruined? I am going to immediately post who got voted off on Survivor or AI or who lost the Amazing Race bc I know the West Coasters and Tivo people wont mind since Slave doesnt watch the shows. You are lucky that hockey isn't shown in the middle of the afternoon.

But I will never ever give away the end of a Charlize Theron film. that would be wrong.

Seriously, Don't Spoil Sports, Ya Spoilsports
 

Not according to Janeane Garofalo. She was on some talk show and promised that if we won , "I will go to the White House on my knees on cut glass and say, 'hey, you were right, I shouldn’t have doubted you.'".

Apparently George W. is still waiting. For what that is worth. It would be a cool reality tv event though.

Serenaty Now
 

Oh, you mean the evening REBROADCAST of their LIVE morning coverage?

But you have a point - I'm now going to write a letter to all the NY media begging them not to report any future Yankees and Rangers scores during or following the games - since both YES and MSG rebroadcast each day's game at Midnight and some poor soul may be watching this later broadcast and want to be surprised by the ending.

Get a friggin' grip.

not7yS

Seriously, Don't Spoil Sports, Ya Spoilsports
 

Yes, we did. Two days ago. After Paigow complained about Less posting the Open results and Less complained about TdF spoilers last year: http://www.lawtalkers.com/forums/sho...2593#post12593

I don't follow tennis and I usually listen to the TdF live, so I don't care. But just like not posting AI results until after the Pacific telecast, it's out of respect for others in the community.

You can still talk about it, just put some space in.

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Tix are $80 a pop. Show starts at Noon. Radiohead closes at 10pm. Rain is probable.

not7y(debating about going)S

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Aside from the fact it's in Jersey, why would you not go? The line-up sounds great.

Scars
 

As I said, I promise I will keep the parasol to off-peak hours.

While we're at it, can we ban small children from trains and sidewalks during rush hour? Keep the weaving wandering monster on a short leash or in your arms and off the ground when I'm trying to get to a meeting, dammit!:brick:

Seriously, Don't Spoil Sports, Ya Spoilsports
 

Once that shit gets broadcast on the left coast - as far as I'm concerned, it's fair game.

As for hockey - I beg you - please put a scrolling scoreboard across the bottom. It would save me the hassle of channel surfing all the time.

not7yS

Scars
 

And the Metro during business hours! Some of those unruly midgets are just screaming for a trip to the rails. Sheesh!

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No kidding. Goddammit if I had wanted to work in Seattle I would have moved there. WTF is with this rain rain rain?

I blame the terrorists.

Penskeloonie
 

Dude, are you getting too lazy to log out your chris sock and relogin your political sock? So sad to see a master end up this way.

Serenaty Now
 

Yes, not2Sharp=- that is what "rebroadcast" means. a word I used.

I dont know about you, but I actually did not have the morning off to head to the local pub and watch the match. Maybe now that you are not a slave anymore you do, but i am still one.

So you contend that nobody is watching the ESPN rebroadcast unspoiled? Or was hoping to anyway? That is a little naive. Consider this. Tennis gets very little television coverage compared to your sports, and there are only eight major weeks of it a year, sprinkled throughout the year. So it is two weeks here, two weeks there. thats it. So when you love tennis, and dont get the Tennis channel (bc comcast blows), these fortnights are precious entertainment to the fans.

And if tennis was such a hugely popular spectator sport, I think more than thirty percent of households with cable would have access to the Tennis Channel. and the masters series would get more network coverage as would other semi big events, but tennis isnt that popular. The demand to watch apparently isnt there, otherwise more events would be broadcast. And since it isnt that popular, then why fucking spoil it on Yahoo? I avoided ESPN and NYT where I would logically expect to see the results, but Yahoo has no good reason for putting an unambiguous header there (NYT bc NYC is the home of a Grand Slam and probably ha a higher proportion of tennis fans). I am sure there are fewer people who went to Yahoo looking for the restuls than there are people who planned to watch the match REbroadcast on ESPN UNspolied tonight.

So stick to booze, porn stars and hockey. Its what you know.

Girls gone wild.
 

Girls gone wild.
 

Yes.

God, I miss the Kitchen.

not7yS

Serenaty Now
 

What did we do when the Olympic hockey matches were on in the daytime? I don't remember.

Anyway, I'd say that providing spoilers for such things is simply a matter of courtesy. If the news, plot developments, etc., is more than a few days old, then a spoiler probably isn't necessary.

Paigow, there probably isn't anyway to completely avoid seeing that sort of news when online. Fricken AOL puts that sort of stuff on their welcome page, so I learn all sorts of things when I log in from home. (I know, I know -- drop AOL. In my defense, I have had it about 10 years, and it would be a huge pain to change email addresses, etc., for me, my wife, and our kid.)

Penskeloonie
 

Fuck! You're right, notwithstanding that Pantaloonie started out as a political sock two days ago and if I was posting a political rant about Ms. Garofalo it would have been about 10 paragraphs longer and referenced (1) the lack of fulfillment of A. Baldwin's promise to defect to the land of gaulois and monokinis; (b) the failure of Hillary C. to apologize for the VRWC thing; and (iii) the failure of Reno and company to apologize for the elian thing.

Still, you're right. I'm spent. I need to get back to the basics. Find myself. The real me and not some sockish perversion (except for the lactation lover perversion-that preceded the sock).

Is there a 12 step program for this type of thing?

Oh the humanity!

Penske

ps: are we still on for burritos in the circle??

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June showers bring July flowers?

Banning kids
 

Speaking about banning kids, another one of my fucking co-workers is currently wandering the office with his new baby. It is not as if we have not had the pleasure of seeing the little imp already (not only in person but in the e-mailed photos sent company-wide). Why can't people understand that this is a fucking place of business, not a damn baby show. Why do people insist upon bringing their wrinkly little ugly offspring into the office and then going from office to office for the obligatory "oohs and ahhs?" I have a kid, he has no place in the office.* Unless the little fuckers are getting paid to be here, in which case they better be generating some revenue, leave your children at home! I guess my biggest problem is that when someone comes into my office with a child/baby I just don't have the cajones to say "no, I don't want to coo over your fucking kid." I generally will find a way not to hold the kid, but it still wastes 5-10 minutes of time hearing the latest "he took the cutest shit" story. Sheesh.



*Unless he is sick or has a holiday and his father cannot get off work to watch him and I absolutely must be in the office in which case he comes into my office and sits with his video gams, toys and books and bothers not a soul.

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I can't remember the last day it wasn't sunny. FWIW. NTTAWWT.

Serenaty Now
 

You actually said "recast" if you wanna be precise

You should also avoid the home pages of

AOL, MSN, MSNBC and CNN

not7yS

PS - FOXNEWS, Drudge and Bloomberg are all safe

Penskeloonie
 

Um, maybe because there *was* a VRWC (assuming we are using a colloquial meaning of "conspiracy")?

Girls gone wild.
 

Just go to any NASCAR event and camp there for the weekend and you will see more nakedness than you can shake a stick at. I recommend Watkins Glen or Talladega for the most prolific flashers.
Personally, I am bothered by anyone willing to bare her shit in public unless she is being paid for it. I know that the guys love it, but my experience has been that women willing to bare their shit to groups of men for free generally don't have much worth seeing. Why do I want to see the misshapen boobs hanging over the pooch of a chick with questionable hygiene habits? I suppose that for men, who are visual creatures, any chance to see nipple, even if it is attached to some hag, is a thrill -- this seems to apply regardless of the age of the man in question.

Penskeloonie
 

I wouldn't know what Hollywood celebrities thought about current events if it weren't for conservatives complaining about it all.

If we're just dropping the socks, that would be great -- I'm getting tired of posting as paigow. Mmm, carnitas.

Girls gone wild.
 

This may be the first thing you have said that I agree with. I remain scarred for life from this time I was in New Orleans and a "girl" failed to give me fair warning before she bared her navel ticklers for some cheap baubles. <shudder>

Banning kids
 

Ooh! Ooh! I think I know this one! Because these people are excited and happy about having the child and want everyone to share in their excitement and happiness? Also, it gets them some attention which everyone enjoys every now and again? Are these right? What do I win?

Also, why do all you folks have such a hard time navigating on the sidewalk in a crowd? How freakin' hard is it to avoid people? You go left, go right, slow down, speed up, and give polite verbal cues to the other pedestrians. It ain't fuckin' rocket science.

Serenaty Now
 

Technically, it didn't matter because God had pre-ordained the outcome of that little tournament, but if I remember correctly most of the important matches were on at night or the weekend anyway. If someone had posted that woohoo Japan only lost 12-2 on its first game, I don't think anyone would have gotten angry.

Girls gone wild.
 

Yes.

At one of the "right" parties I went to (back when I wasn't old and boring) some stripper girls (guest, not hired) came in, got loaded, and proceeded to have drunk stripper sex in the middle of the living room floor - seemingly oblivious to everyone else. The guys were utterly entranced - I've never seen anything quite like it.

-TL

Banning kids
 

Are you this crabby all the time or only during the day?

-T(take a vacation day, already)L

Banning kids
 

You must not walk much in a town inhabited substantially by overweight gov't secretaries who walk two or three abreast down the middle of the sidewalk, and who refuse to move aside, or, for that matter, walk in a straight line. I was stuck behind two such taxpayer-remoras this morning. I tried to go around them (well, circumnavigate might more aptly describe the detour I had to take), yet, as I was doing so, they drifted to the left, leaving me the choice of being absorbed into their blubber or stepping into the muddy tree box on the other side.

Banning kids
 

OR have some beer at the office :beer:

As for the baby-bringers, do they actually get paid for that day of work? Is it possible to accomplish anything while toting the baby around? I suppose if it's a question of billables, then it doesn't matter (although why they're in the office at all is a question), but for a wage?

Banning kids
 

I guess you are trying to say that I am a meanie because I don't want to share in the happiness and enjoyment thing. I dunno, I had a child and didn't do this sort of thing. I guess I just don't understand why people cannot keep their personal and business lives separate. I work a lot and I have a family -- the two things are very different and I like to keep them apart.

You know, if they really cared that much about their newborn children people would probably think twice about dragging them into office buildings (where we all know that germ-laden air is constantly circulated) to be handled by numerous people who likely do not wash their hands before picking up the child.

Serenaty Now
 

Gloating doesn't suit you, you know. And aren't Canadians supposed to be self-effacing?

Husbands, Rejoice!
 

Housework Can Help Prevent Cancer, Say Scientists

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Housework is good for you.

According to a new Australian-Chinese study, dusting and vacuuming could help prevent ovarian cancer.

The study, published in the International Journal of Cancer this week, found moderate exercise such as housework decreased the risk of ovarian cancer with the benefits increasing the harder the work.

Head researcher Colin Binns from Perth's Curtin University on Australia's west coast said the two-year study of 900 Chinese women found the risk of ovarian cancer declined with increasing physical activity. Housework was on the list.

"If you are only doing the housework 20 minutes a week ... it does not really count, but if you are doing three to four hours a day, this is fairly vigorous exercise and increases protection from ovarian cancer," Binns told Reuters.

Full text: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...work_cancer_dc

3 or 4 hours of housework!

Serenaty Now
 

Was God on holiday the previous 50 years?

Banning kids
 

I know the type, these are the same people who sit in little clusters on the train and cackle at the top of their lungs about the most banal BS gossip and about how bad their lives are (like they're some prize to come home to).

Since they move in groups, I'm considering advocating letting packs of hyenas loose at the train stations on the decrepit wildebeests to pick off the stragglers. I'm not bitter, though.

Banning kids
 

I also have a child who has not shown her face at my work. But I certainly understand why others bring in their kids. Some people don't like to mix work and personal life, others do.

Regarding your second paragraph, I agree completely. If you're bringing the kid in, wait until they're at least two months old.

21 Questions
 

So I heard "21 Questions" by 50 Cent today, for maybe the 100th time. I think it's interesting. Here's why.

At first blush, it seems as though 50 is singing the song to ask his beloved if she loves him for his true self, or merely because of his fame ("Girl/It's easy to love me now/Would you love me if I was down and out/would you still have love for me," and "If I went back to a hoopty from a Benz/Would you poof and disappear like
some of my friends?"). So we think that 50 is in the position of power in this relationship. And there's no reason to think otherwise for the first 3/4 of the song.

But towards the end, the song takes a sharp turn:

"If I was with some other chick and someone happened to see?
And when you asked me about it I said it wasn't me
Would you believe me? Or up and leave me?
How deep is our bond if that's all it takes for you to be gone?
We only humans girl we make mistakes,
To make it up I do whatever it take."

These questions are remarkably different, and seem not-so hypothetical. What's really going on is that 50's been caught by his girl banging some other skeeze.

So it turns out, his girlfriend has "hand"; 50 is the supplicant trying to convince her to remain in the relationship. How he does so is a blueprint to Players everywhere. Be cool. Act like you never lost "hand" in the first place. Question HER motives, and let her know that you're questioning her motives. The best defense is a good offense. Do you love me for me, or for my Benz? I'm not so sure I want to keep you around anyhow. Ok, I guess that I do. I'll put my doubts behind me, you do the same. We'll move on. A true Player plays thusly. And IT WORKS! The song ends with the lyric of the year: "I love you like a fat kid love cake." Make her laugh, and you've won. Everything's fine. 50 convinces his girl to put her doubts aside and move on. What a Mack.

At least, that's how it looks from here.

Coming up later, an analysis of Some Kind of Wonderful.